This paper presents comparison study among three
of the most famous Business Process Management
Systems, Bizagi, ProcessMaker, and Joget. Bizagi is
close source, while ProcessMaker and Joget are open
source. The comparison framework has been devel-
oped based on the most features that needed to be in-
teracted when developing work
ow system. Simple
business process has been used as case study that de-
scribes the online application for master applicants
at modern Arab university. Systems have been devel-
oped using those tools. After that the comparison was
done according to the framework. Finally the results
are pointing according the given measurement.
According to our framework and selected features the
study found that the Bizagi has the best performance
and the second is ProcessMaker. However, this by no
means is a complete comparison.
In business process modelling Bizagi outperforms the
other tools. However in form aspects ProcessMaker
and Joget outperform Bizagi.

2.1. The Workflow Definition Interchange (Interface 1) It is an interchange format and API calls, which can support the exchange of process definition information over a variety of physical or electronic interchange media [5]. 2.2. Workflow Client Application Interface (Interface 2) It is used to map between worklist and engine. The workflow engine is used to enforce the workflow definition and execute workflow actions. 2.3. Invoked Applications Interface (Interface 3) It is intending to be applicable to application agents and applications which have been designed to be workflow enabled [5]. 2.4. Interoperability (Interface 4) Used as common interpretation of the process definition and runtime support for the interchange of various types of control information. 2.5. Administration & Monitoring Interface (Interface 5) Shows an independent management application interacting with different workflow domains.

case study describes the online application for master applicants. According to Faculty of Graduate Studies at Sudan University of Science and Technology, we defined a simple Online Application process to be implemented. The basic workflow is illustrated using the designers of the three tools .

that the student enters to the system, either by paying for the application form or filling the application form according to the program that he/she wants to take, and sends the application. The payment will be received by the accounting, to check it and send payment report to the registrar. The registrar will receive the application and process it, if the student meets the admission requirements. Then the application will be sent to the Ministry of Higher Education (MHE) to check the certificate. The registrar will be informed by MHE that the certificate is either approved or not .In case that the certificate is not approved by MHE, the registrar will inform the student that his/her application is disapproved. If the certificate is approved, the registrar will send the application to the college. Then the college will consider the application in order to decide whether the application is consonant with terms of concerned program. The college will inform the registrar with its decision about the application. At long last, the registrar will inform the student that his/her application is approved.

The framework consists of five levels: business process, business rule, user management and authorization, form and database. The tool get score in order to: If the tools have got the same performance for a given feature they will have obtained one point for all. The tool gets zero when it does not support a given feature. The tool gets two points when it supports the feature that not supported by other tools.

In other words Bizagi rolling in the XPDL piping out ProcessMaker, and ProcessMaker rolling in XPDL piping out Bizagi but the Joget XPDL not rolling in other two tools, and the XPDL of other two tools not rolling in Joget.

If the tools have got the same performance for a given feature they will have obtained one point for all. The tool gets zero when it does not support a given feature. The tool gets two points when it supports the feature that not supported by other tools.

However, this by no means is a complete comparison. In business process modelling Bizagi outperforms the other tools. However in form aspects ProcessMaker and Joget outperform Bizagi.

Transcript of "Comparison of the workflow management systems bizagi, process maker, and joget"

3.
Introduction
• Nowadays there are tens of Workflow
Management Systems (WFMS) with different
capabilities and features.
• The first goal of this comparison study is to
find out how these systems are different.
• The second goal is about the current status of
these three WFMS.
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4.
Generations of WFMS
• According to Gromann et al, there are four generations of
WFMS:
• First generation is application specific and the workflow
capabilities are expressed in particular applications like e-
mails and document management.
• The second generation the workflow capabilities are
factored out from application domains and thus workflows
are separate applications.
• Third generation has an open standard-based architecture
and can be fully integrated in 3rd party tools.
• Fourth generation the workflow management systems are
completely integrated with other middle-ware services like
e-mail, desktop management, have standardized interfaces
and interchange formats .
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Overview of the Tools
• Bizagi is (WFMS) solution designed to
support the organizational processes and their
life cycle (model, execute, and improve) .
• ProcessMaker (WFMS) allows public and
private organizations to automate document
intensive, approval-based processes across
departments and systems.
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Cont..
• Joget Workflow is a workflow management
system that serves as a platform for users to
design, deploy and run workflows for their
organization's business processes.
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Case Study
• Three systems have been developed using
Processmaker, Bizagi, and Joget.
• The case study was chosen because it covers many
tasks, user with different privileges and business rules.
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12.
Business Process Modeling
• Process modeling is used to simulate a system using
Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) as shown in
figure (2).
• ProcessMaker allows piping out and rolling in processes into
.XPDL and .pm. formats.
• BizAgi piping out and rolling in the process in many
formats includes: XPDL, Visio, and export PDF, Word,
Image.
• Joget piping out and rolling in XPDL format only.
• Bizagi and ProcessMaker support the XPDL2.1, while Joget
support XPDL1.0,this causes compatibility problems.
• From the experiment the Bizagi and Joget support lane,
while the ProcessMaker does not support it.
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13.
Business Rules
• A business rule is anything that captures and implements
business policies and practices. A rule can enforce business
policy and make a decision .
• Bizagi offers a simple graphical environment which enables
business analysts to define and manage business rules and
policies.
• ProcessMaker has embedded business rules engine which
drives the logic behind the process.
• In Joget the Routes are typically nodes where decisions are
made and (based on the rules of your process), the flow of
the application maybe be altered .
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14.
User Management and Authorization
• In workflow, needs to assign each task to user or group of
users during system execution.
• An organization in Bizagi is where the user can define the
hierarchical structure: area, location, position, role, skill,
user properties, user groups , and holiday schema.
• ProcessMaker organizes system users into users, groups,
departments and roles.
• Joget in order for activities to be routed to the correct
users, participants should be mapped to the appropriate
users, group or department of users.
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15.
Form
• Users interact with the system through the form and pass it
to the next users.
• Bizagi is not rich in form field types, as some fields like
check box is absence.
• ProcessMaker is richer in form field types. The main
property you can view the form code as HTML or XML
and easily manage and edit it.
• In Joget, forms can be designed and edited using the Form
Builder tool, or using JSON (JavaScript Object Notation)
is a lightweight data-interchange format.
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18.
Conclusion
•This study compared three of WorkFlow
Management Systems; namely: Bizagi (academic
version), ProcessMaker (free open source
version) and Joget (community version).
•The study focused on the developing process.
• It showed that all of these systems have
satisfactory performance during development, as
it was quite easy to conduct the case study
through each tool.
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19.
Future Work
• This study is the first part of multi phase’s
comparison.
• The other parts contain: Comparing tools
internal structures, activities monitoring,
security measurement and process mining.
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